Active Vision during Action Execution, Observation and Imagery: Evidence for Shared Motor Representations

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  McCormick, Sheree A ^a   Causer, Joe ^b   Holmes, Paul S ^a  

^a MANCHESTER METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b LIVERPOOL JOHN MOORES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; EYE FIXATION; EYE MOVEMENT; GAZE; HAND MOVEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGERY; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; OBSERVATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUOMOTOR COORDINATION; VOLUNTEER;

EYE MOVEMENTS; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR ACTIVITY; TIME FACTORS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84879344362     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0067761     Document Type: Article

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